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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:06:20PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> >>
> >> I only suggested dropping PC98. Why? If you look at the PC98 page* it
> >> hasn't been updated since FreeBSD 4.11 and bsdstats.org shows zero
> >> people using it... PC98 is a  dead platform like Alpha and Alpha
> >> support is being dropped for FreeBSD 7, but if you look at
> >> bsdstats.org the Alpha platform has more users than sparc, powerpc and
> >> pc98 combined!!
> >
> >pc98 appears to be popular in Japan.  See
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~kato/pc98.html
> >
> >Alpha died because the chip maker stopped
> >making chips.
> >
> 
> NEC stopped making PC98 system in 1997!!!

That's odd.  See NEC's press release dated 23 OCT 97
concerning a new series of PC98-NX

http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/9710/2301.html

-- 
Steve